The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-16
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utes later he was dangling from the end OF a
rope.
THE Pima Indians have as much talent for
imitation the Cinnamon. They are all busily
engaged now in the manufacture of old relics,
which they bring to Phoenix and sell for 10c
apiece. The latest is good imitation of ella
monster, life-size,
IN the pockets of negro killed by lightning
in Texas were found two horseshoe magnets,
| two copper cents that had melted together, q
nickel that was partly melted and stuck to his
| watch, and the nickel rim around his money
purse was also melted.
Two SAILORS of a wrecked Gloucester schooner
were adrift on the ocean for six days without a
morsel of food or drop of water. After trying
all imaginable experiments to allay their thirst,
| one man cut his arms in order that they might
drink his blood but blood would not flow. They
were picked up shortly afterward.
THE Boston street directory Providence
| Journal man has discovered, shows II. w. Long
| fellow to be pursuing the avocation of grocer.
| r. w. Emerson sells shoes in Boston, Walter
| Scott is both baker and tailor Francis Bacon
| sells shirts, Charles Lamb is salesman, while
| Matthew Arnold works humby in brass, with no
| more fitness of place than may be found in the
| fact that he dwellS on Athens street.
| A NOTED rebel chief in Tonquin. was recently
| captured and executed. After he was taken, to
the questions put to him the prisoner would
| give no answer, but as soon as he was captured
| he tried to commit suicide by tearing open his
stomach with his nails, biting his tongue.
scratching his eyes out. and mutilating himself
| in still more horrible ways. He had very great
influence with the literati. At his last examina-
ton he obtained first place and he was president
| OF the important association of Thau-ban.
Mrs. GORDON, of Clayton, H., was lying on a
sofa in the sitting room the other evening think
ing of her little Nora, who died several years
her, and looking up, as if by accident, at the
mirror in the ROOM she saw distinctly outlined
there the features of her dead child. She could
not believe her eyes at first, but the picture is
still there and has been seen by her neighbors.
1t is natural and lifeke, and represents the
little child in the dress she had on when she was
seized with her fatal illness.
THERE is great deal of phosphorescent light
at night on the marshy land around the soughs
| which run into the Mississippi between Keokuk
and Quincy, and belated duck hunters claim to
have seen some uncanny beings roaming around
the marshes this spring. One party heard soft
and ghostly music one night, and following it
up, saw group of weird beings dancing around
stump In the open to the music of white
robed flute player. After watching the strange
group for awhile one of the hunters fired his
gun, whereupon the ghost-like dancers vanished
into thin air. 1t is to be noted. however, that
the huntSmen's bait bottle was absolutely empty
when they returned to the city.
have been able to cure whooping cough by
means of inhalations of sulphurous anhydride.
In the first instance this was done accidentally
while disinfecting some rooms, subsequently it
was done by burning six drachms of sulphur
per cubic metre of space, the bedding, etc. be-
ing well exposed to3its influence. After the
room had been closed for four hours. ventilation
was restored, and the Children put to sleep in
the beds impregnated with the sulphurous
vapors In the morning he congh had ceased.
As there is a decided epidemic of the distressing
complaint all over the country, there will be no
lack of opportunities for putting this treatment
to test. ....-
THE gentlemen who advertise that they twill
not be responsible for debts contracted by
their wives says the st. James Gazette, should
digest case recently tried at AK. The Count
de Chan1brun who had issued such an intima-
ton, was sued by a dressmaker for articles
supplied to bis wife. He was ordered to pay the
full sum owing, and the Judge in summing up
One of these is to render the wife's existence
agreeable, and way to do it is by ''embellish
ing" her If man has an elegant" wife, and
her toiettes are admired this benefits the hus-
band in direct manner" 1t is not stated
whether the learned Judge in this case was
married man himself, but that is immaterial.
SENATOR CoNGER, of Michigan, was married
for the second time, when he was a member of
the House, to a stout, pleasant old lady, who
had dark hair, arranged in the old style, and
gold-bowed spectacles. She was his first love,
A quarrel separated them. Each married
Twenty years after he, widower, was in Con-
gress; she, widow, sat in the gallery and lis
tened to his speech. 1t was the first time they
had seen each other since their early days She
sent her card to him; he came at once to the
gallery. After little talk she asked him to
call upon her at her friends, Mrs. Dahlgreen's.
He said he would call If he could come as he
used to in those long past days of youth. In a
few weeks they were married at Mrs. Admiral
DQllGrepnS residence. and cOmnlptplV
infatuated with each other.
ONE of the best known of the French vine
yards-the famous Clos Vougeot-is soon to be
sold at auction 1t is only plot of little over
100 acres, but the product which it yields heads
the list of the great Burgundy vintages which
is equivalent, in the opinion of many to saving
that it is the first wine in the world As the
French owe their choicest liquer to the Carthu-
slams, so they owe their finest Burgundy to the
Cistercians for it was they who, in the twelfth
century, first planted the grape which produces
it and from which it has taken its name 1t
soon acquired a European reputation. A hogs
head of the generous cru was gift for king
Jean de Busseres, one of the priors of the order,
received red hat from Gregory XII. in exchange
for thirty casks of the wine-a 1.-THE of one
years produce. The yield rose to 700 casks in
1885. but it does not average more than about
half that quantity.
MRS SrEcKEL of Allentown, Pa. has been
immortalzed by an account that was given of
her walking into church last Easter Sunday and
presenting the minister with basket of eggs.
On a recent Sunday she made an improvement
on that gift. just as the minister was dismiss
ing the congregation she appeared in church
clad in white dress and having a flaming red
sash bound about her head and crossed over her
breast the ends hanging loosely to the ground
A yellow girdle was bound around her waist
On her head she carried boys express wagon.
the tongue Of which pointed upward, and was
trimmed with evergreens. The body of the
wagon was full OF oranges, lemons, onions, and
other fruits and vegetables. A large live goose,
securely fastened to the wheel, with outstretched
pinions, was seated in the wagon The goose
made great noise ss il was borne aoft With
out saying word Mrs. Stecke deposited her
burden in the church and departed
THE old practical joke of half a dozen Young
fellows raising dripping wet umbrellas in the
main doorway Of public hall at the close of an
entertainment before crowded house on a
starlight night was played with entire success n
few evenings ago in Harlem, n. Y The news of
the unexpected and most unwelcome storm was
communicated TO Others by those of the audi
cnce that first saw the umbrellas and in that
way II became the exciting and exclusive sub
tect of conversation throughout the buldine,
Gentleman carefully covered their silk files
with their handkerchiefs, rolled up the ends of
the legs OF their trousers. and turned tp their
coat collars. Ladies' prepared themselves in
the conventional way for a provoking walk To
the cars, and others sent their gallant escorts
flying after umbrellas coaches and wafer.